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Friday, November 18, 2016

Family Research Council omits racist history of another Trump Administration selection

FRC's Tony Perkins

Apparently, the so-called Christian organization (but actually anti-lgbt hate group) the Family Research Council seems to be tasked with defending President-elect Donald Trump's bad choices for his administration to evangelicals.

First, the group defended Trump's choice of Steven Bannon as his chief White House strategist. Bannon has come under fire for his connection to the white supremacist "alt-right" movement during his tenure as head of the Breitbart News Network.

The Family Research Council played down this information by pretty much ignoring it in the organization's praise of Bannon's selection.

Part of FRC's statement as follows:

Calling him a symbol of the "ugly direction" Trump intends to take
this country, radical groups from the disgraced Southern Poverty Law
Center (SPLC) to George Soros's People for the American Way are calling
on the president-elect to rescind the job offer. "It is a disaster,"
bemoaned Mark Potok of SPLC, one of the many extremists wringing their
hands over the thought of Bannon on the White House staff. The coalition
of detractors is a who's who of the liberal fringe, including everyone
from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to the
Anti-Defamation League. Anyone who draws the ire of those organizations
must be a true conservative!

Earlier today, it was announced that Trump had selected Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as his pick for Attorney General. This has ignited another firestorm for the same reasons as Bannon.

Sessions has an eyebrow-raising history of racist actions and comments including praising the Klan, attacking civil rights groups such as the NAACP and the ACLU as "un-American," and using his office while a federal prosecutor in Alabama to target civil rights workers who were registering black elderly voters.

The Senate rejected then-President RonaldReagan’s
nomination of Sessions as a federal judge in 1986 after colleagues
testified about racially offensive comments Sessions made as a U.S.
Attorney in Alabama.

Attorneys who worked with Sessions alleged in the 1986 hearings that
Sessions once referred to a black attorney as “boy,” suggested a white
attorney was a traitor to his race for representing black clients,
called the American Civil Liberties Union and National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People “un-American” for trying to “force
civil rights down the throats of people who were trying to put problems
behind them,” and said that his only problem with the Ku Klux Klan was
the extremist group’s marijuana use.

The article also said that several civil rights groups and Congressional leaders publicly oppose Sessions' nomination.

However, as in the case of Bannon, the Family Research Council had nothing but praise for Sessions. And, again as in the case of Bannon, FRC omitted addressing the racial controversy at hand. In a press release obtained by prominent lgbt bloggger Joe Jervis, FRC president Tony Perkins said the following:

After the eight-year scandal-factory of the Justice
Department, the president-elect is making it clear that it’s a new day
at DOJ with the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney
general. For the senator, the first to endorse Trump, the DOJ is hardly
new territory. “My previous 15 years working in the Department of
Justice were extraordinarily fulfilling. I love the Department, its
people and its mission. I can think of no greater honor than to lead
them,” he said.

FRC has worked with Senator Sessions on a number of issues and could
not be happier to watch him usher in a new era at DOJ — one that
cherishes the Constitution and its protection of our freedom from
government oppression. If there’s one thing we know about Senator
Sessions, it’s that he understands the importance of all of our
God-given rights, respects the law, and will be a vital part of
restoring our nation to greatness.

Someone should tell Perkins and FRC that pandering is exactly a good quality for any organization claiming to be Christian to have

About Me

Alvin McEwen is 46-year-old African-American gay man who resides in Columbia, SC.
McEwen's blog, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, and writings have been mentioned by Americablog.com, Goodasyou.org, People for the American Way, PageOneQ.com, The Washington Post, Raw Story, The Advocate, Media Matters for America, Crooksandliars.com, Thinkprogress.org, Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, Melissa Harris-Perry, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Washington Blade, and Foxnews.com.
In addition, he is also a past contributor to Pam's House Blend,Justice For All, LGBTQ Nation, and Alternet.org. He is a present contributor to the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post,
He is the 2007 recipient of the Harriet Daniels Hancock Volunteer of the Year Award and the 2010 recipient of the Order of the Pink Palmetto from the SC Pride Movement as well as the 2009 recipient of the Audre Lorde/James Baldwin Civil Rights Activist Award from SC Black Pride. In addition, he is a three-time nominee of the Ed Madden Media Advocacy Award from SC Pride.